OT: High School Basketball story

[Hawk_4shur]

My neighbor's grandson plays for a HS basketball team in the St Louis suburbs. He's a junior that gets playing time. Lots of drama around the team this year because the coach was playing the seniors that a lot of the parents didn't think were as good as the juniors.

Late in the season, the coach started playing the juniors and sitting the seniors. They started winning.

This week they are in the Missouri state tournament. It's spring break, so the seniors all quit (except 1) so they could go to Cancun with their parents.

This could have never happened with me or my children. It's a disgrace.

So it's no wonder kids leave a team for money or playing time in college basketball. They are learning the behavior early it seems.

 

[mrcyfan]

I don’t know how this story ends, but it would be cool if they overachieved at state. Would also make the coach wonder why it took him so long to observe the obvious.

 

[ISUBryce]

Happens every year in the metro.

 

[littlez]

My neighbor's grandson plays for a HS basketball team in the St Louis suburbs. He's a junior that gets playing time. Lots of drama around the team this year because the coach was playing the seniors that a lot of the parents didn't think were as good as the juniors.

Late in the season, the coach started playing the juniors and sitting the seniors. They started winning.

This week they are in the Missouri state tournament. It's spring break, so the seniors all quit (except 1) so they could go to Cancun with their parents.

This could have never happened with me or my children. It's a disgrace.

So it's no wonder kids leave a team for money or playing time in college basketball. They are learning the behavior early it seems.

What’s the school?

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

CSB

 

[littlez]

Happens every year in the metro.

No it doesn’t.

 

[ISUBryce]

No it doesn’t.

Well it did at my school. Not unheard of.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Well it did at my school. Not unheard of.

It's because you're an Iowa State fan.

It wouldn't have happened if you weren't, but...........life choices.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

Great life lesson from those prickish parents. If the going gets tough and life gets challenging, just quit.

 

[jerbob36]

Sitting seniors is a lot easier to say from an outside perspective. However, with that much of a disparity in talent, it seems like the coach should've had a sit-down three weeks in and laid the cards on the table. Having said that, awful decision to quit on your team, by both the parents and the kids.

 

[Dauminator]

It's pervasive through society, in every aspect of life.

 

[ozzie8]

Sounds like the coach made the right decision sitting those seniors. Good riddance to those parents

 

[mthawkeyes]

Sitting seniors is a lot easier to say from an outside perspective. However, with that much of a disparity in talent, it seems like the coach should've had a sit-down three weeks in and laid the cards on the table. Having said that, awful decision to quit on your team, by both the parents and the kids.

When I coached high school basketball, I had a conversation with every kid during the second week of practice about where I saw them as a player and their role on the team. I didn't enjoy telling kids who wanted to play basketball, especially seniors, that they would probably not be in the regular rotation. But I never had a kid quit because of that, probably because they respected the fact that I had enough respect to be up front with them. I also never had issues with the parents of those kids. I also had frank discussions with players throughout the season about what they had to improve and/or focus on to get into or stay in the rotation. 80-90% of the time, kids got better at those things and it was reflected in their playing time and the team's success. Maybe I was just fortunate, but that was my experience.

 

[littlez]

So here we go with an unsubstantiated story and we immediately get into kids being pampered today. And @ISUBryce tell me what school in the metro this happened at? Because by the time Regionals or the State tournament comes rolling around you've played 22-25 games. There's a lot more to this story, and it's not happening all over.

 

[jerbob36]

That's how it has to go, MT. Kudos to you for laying it out clearly.

 

[joelbc1]

My neighbor's grandson plays for a HS basketball team in the St Louis suburbs. He's a junior that gets playing time. Lots of drama around the team this year because the coach was playing the seniors that a lot of the parents didn't think were as good as the juniors.

Late in the season, the coach started playing the juniors and sitting the seniors. They started winning.

This week they are in the Missouri state tournament. It's spring break, so the seniors all quit (except 1) so they could go to Cancun with their parents.

This could have never happened with me or my children. It's a disgrace.

So it's no wonder kids leave a team for money or playing time in college basketball. They are learning the behavior early it seems.

“Entitlement” can be a learned behavior, too…….Nothing wrong with “earned” entitlements……nothing right with “learned” entitlements…..

The problem is……America want to “cut all entitlements” because of the negative connotations associated with them…..when the problem is we reward many with entitlements after they CHOSE the entitlement as opposed to earned it.

 

[cphawkinthelou]

CSB

Local guy that doesn't seem to be smart enough to figure who CSB is...

 

[ISUBryce]

So here we go with an unsubstantiated story and we immediately get into kids being pampered today. And @ISUBryce tell me what school in the metro this happened at? Because by the time Regionals or the State tournament comes rolling around you've played 22-25 games. There's a lot more to this story, and it's not happening all over.

Well let me correct myself, I’m not going to say the name of the town because I don’t want to potentially embarrass anybody.

But once the JV season ended a lot of kids quit the team, even though there was like 2 weeks left. I thought it was silly but I think the concept is the same.

Maybe I’m wrong and that’s ok.